Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch occurred on 8-9 November 1923 when 2,000 Nazi Party supporters under Adolf Hitler and World War I hero Erich Ludendorff attempted an armed coup against the weak Weimar Republic government of Germany in Munich, Bavaria. The 2,000 Nazis marched to the center of Munich and confronted the armed guards, who proceeded to fire on the Nazi crowds. The Nazi coup plotter Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter and fourteen other Nazis were killed, while four policemen died in the fighting. Hitler was sentenced to nine months in prison for his role in the coup, and he decided to change his tactics to propaganda rather than violent revolution.